LeeAnn Derdeyn
Clinical Associate Professor
Literature (Modernism, British/Irish/American 20th/21st C, Environmental, Women's,
Holocaust, Modern & Contemporary Poetry), Composition & Rhetoric
LeeAnn Derdeyn, Ph.D., is a Clinical Associate Professor at The University of North
Texas, an R1 HSI. Her interdisciplinary research in Ethics and 20th/21st C Transatlantic
English Literature (American, British, and Irish) examines interrelated environmental,
women’s, and human justice issues. An award-winning teacher, Dr. Derdeyn loves her
home in DMI where she collaborates on Project-Based Learning with colleagues across
varied fields.
Dr. Derdeyn has presented at prestigious conferences in the US, England, Ireland,
and Italy and published in Modernism/modernity, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature
and Environment (ISLE), College Literature, and English Studies, plus book chapters
and poems. Books in progress include: Blindsighted: Alienation and Affirmation in
T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and Love the Jackalope: Insecurity in Contemporary English
Literature from David Foster Wallace to Ali Smith.
When not grading, LeeAnn spends time with her family, is the church pianist and choir
director, reads and writes, and keeps bees.